Katherine Mansfield Quotes

When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that's when it dies.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

I do not favor the gag order.

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

Freedom of speech only exists in proportion to indifference to the thing spoken of.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

We can't let censorship take over.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are correct. That is the chief enemy of creativity.

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

I'm not stuck in anybody's body. I'm me.